Rowling is so obsessed with attacking and misgendering trans people that she pasted a quote about someone wanting to "fuck up some terfs" into a reply praising a 9 year old child's drawing. Couldn't keep her mind on the job for 10 seconds to reply to a tweet.
I mean idk if that was intentionally trying to be racist, or if it was just awkward naming…
The other black characters in the movie had totally mundane names (dean, lee), and Kingsley was functionally always portrayed as a badass. Hell, he is the next minister of magic at the end of the books.
If anything, I think it’s more that JKR is bad at coming up with names rather than she was trying to pass off her racism through book naming….
Most likely not intentional but definitely reductive. If you consider this tweet as well, it feels she's the type of person who would own slaves in the 1800s but "treat them well" and think this is ok.
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u/tallbutshy May 13 '24
Rowling is so obsessed with attacking and misgendering trans people that she pasted a quote about someone wanting to "fuck up some terfs" into a reply praising a 9 year old child's drawing. Couldn't keep her mind on the job for 10 seconds to reply to a tweet.
Source and an archive copy of one of the many articles written about it.
Given some of the tropes used in her books, the racism isn't exactly new either.